Use Vault Proxy built-in persistent caching

Vault Proxy can restore tokens and leases from a persistent cache file created by a previous Vault Proxy process. The persistent cache is a BoltDB file that includes tuples encrypted by a generated encryption key. The encrypted tuples include the Vault token used to retrieve secrets, leases for tokens/secrets, and secret values.

In order to use Vault Proxy persistent cache, auto-auth must be used. If the auto-auth token has expired by the time the cache is restored, the cache will be invalidated and secrets will need to be re-fetched from Vault.

Vault Proxy persistent cache types

Please see the sidebar for available types and their usage/configuration.

Persistent cache example configuration

Here is an example of a persistent cache configuration.

# Other Vault Proxy configuration blocks
# ...

cache {
  persist "kubernetes" {
    path = "/vault/proxy-cache"
  }
}